Improvement in ironing-tables



B. SCHOOYNMAKER.

Improvement in Ironing-Tables.

Patented Nov. 19,1872

HMI

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BRONSON SCHOONMAKER, OF PLAINWELL, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN lRONlNG-TABLES.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 133,122, dated November. 19, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit knownthat I, BRoNsoN ScHooNi/LAKER, y

of Plainwell, Allegan county, State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements iu Ironing-Tables; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon makin g a part of this specification.

The nat-ure of my invention consists of certain improvements upon ironing-tables, the object of which is to attach a board of suitable shape and size to the end of an ordinary leaftable so that one end of said board will project, giving room to draw a dress, skirt, or shirt upon the same so as to be ironed without wrinkling. l

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure lis a side view of my invention, Fig. 2 is a perspective view, and Fig. 3 asectional view. y A represents a portion of an ordinary leaftable. B represents the board, which is made of any kind of hard or soft wood; said board B is four feet long, sixteen inches wide, except one end, which is tapered so as to receive the articles to be ironed, such as dresses, skirts, and shirts. C is a cast-iron iron-holder three inches in diameter, resembling in shape a common tea-saucer, with a very thick bottom. I drill a hole through the center of the bottom of said iron-holder of suitable size to receive a common three-eighths bolt; I then cut a thread in the same to correspond with the thread on said bolt. D is a cast-iron button five inches long, one inch wide, and threequarters thick, with a slot one inch long in the center, and three-eighths wide. E is a v straight leg attached to the ironing-board on the lower side by means of a common wroughtiron butt-hinge 5 said leg is to support the ironing-board B. To attach the ironin g-board B to the table A, I bore a hole three inches from the end of the board in the center at the wide end 5 then I take the bolt, (which is three inches long, with a thread out on one end-to correspond with the thread in the iron-holder C, and square at the other end with a head on the sama) put it through the button D, then through the ironing-board B, into the hole in the iron-holder C. I then lay the end of the board B on the end of the table A, as in Fig. 1, one end of the button D under the end of the table A, theother end under the cleat F; then screw theiron-holderO down, which will draw the button D up snug against the lower side of end of table A and cleatF, which secures the ironing-board B firmly to the table A, as represented in Fig. l, the ironholder C answering a double purpose-first, as a nut -to fasten the ironing-board B to the table; and, secondly, to holdl the fiat-iron. When the board is not in use it may be rea ily unfastened from the table by unscrewing the iron-holder C, close the leg E up against the board B, and put back o ut of the'way.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l The iron-holder C, the button D, as com-l Witnesses:

W. H. Woon, J. O. PATTERSON. 

